Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1921. No. 43.

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901–1916.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation as from 20th January, 1921.

Dated this sixteenth day of February, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

geo. h. wise,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 234 is amended by inserting the following paragraphs at the end of sub-regulation (1):—.

Provided that, if in the ordinary course of the circulation of mail matter the notification cannot reach the addressee within twenty-four hours, for each additional twenty-four hours that elapses before the notification can reach the addressee a corresponding period of twenty-four hours shall be allowed without charge of demurrage.

Provided further that demurrage shall not be chargeable for any period in respect of which it can be shown that the detention of a parcel was not due to the fault or negligence of the sender or the addressee or any person acting on behalf of the sender or the addressee; but this proviso shall not relieve the addressee from payment of demurrage in the event of delay in producing invoices, descriptions of contents, or any similar information required by the Department of Trade and Customs.

                 

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